Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 5:2

2 And ye are puffed up , and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed, might be taken away from amongst you .

You are so conceited of your own parts and gifts, and are so full of your contentions about the preference of Ministers, and things of little concernment to your Souls, and the interest of the Church, that you have not been able to find leisure to deal with this scandalous person, as a Church of Christ ought to have done. This seemeth rather the reason of their not mourning, than any rejoycing in iniquity, as if they had thought the Gospel had opened that door against this licentiousness which the Law had shut, or triumphed in this incestuous person, being one of their Teachers (which can hardly be thought.)

They ought rather to have mourned, keeping times of Fasting and Prayer, on the behalf of this scandalous Member amongst them, that his sin might (upon his due sense of it, and repentance for it) have been forgiven him, and the blot upon their Church, by their having such a one in their fellowship, might be washed out, and by his being cast out of their fellowship and communion. It was no time for them to glory in their gifts, and be pufft up with the parts of their Teachers or Members, when they had such a blot upon them by a putrid Member that was amongst them. They had a great deal more cause for humiliation, than for pride and glorying.